Agile Coaching

Any experienced Agile and Scrum coach, who has a lot of theory and practice under his belt should have in-depth understanding of practices and principles of various agile frameworks and real-world experience of implementing it at organizations. A good coach must have a proven track record of guiding organizations through challenges of Agile and Scrum adoption.

An experienced coach should have experience with both: adoption successes and adoption failures, with the latter being a great “lessons learned” that that a coach is not embarrassed to share. A coach with diverse experience that spans across multiple organizational systems should be able to effectively serve multiple teams, products, project cycles, environments or technologies.

Some coaches can operate equally comfortably at any organizational level: top of organization (with senior leadership), team-level/mid-level management and with individuals. But some coaches have a stronger preference where to focus: team-level or enterprise-level.

Some of the most important hallmarks of Agile coaching profession are conceptualized here: “Agile Coaching: Lessons from the Trenches“. Before engaging with a coach (Enterprise, Team or Individual level), it could be beneficial to familiarize yourself with this post, to better understand what a client should expect from a healthy from a coaching engagement. The following topics are covered in this post:

Note: As Certified Enterprise Coach (CEC), while coaching organizations, teams and people, I am empowered to exercise my own discretion to help individuals in achieving Scrum certifications. I extend this offer only to those selected individuals that genuinely support and practice values of Agile and Scrum.

Coaches are frequently asked by customers, especially, at early stages of an engagement: “What are your objectives, as an organizational agile coach? What are you planning to accomplish?“.

While personal coaching objectives may vary from one coach to another, and depend on specific needs of a client-organization, there are some basic commonalities among all coaches, in terms of what they strive to achieve, while engaging with their clients. Here is the list of objectives that are shared by many agile /organizational coaches: Top 10 Objectives of Agile Coach.

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